Route
It starts between Ware and Hertford in Hertfordshire and today travels 20 miles (32 km) down to Stoke Newington. Among the districts it flows through are (from north to south):
- Great Amwell
- Broxbourne
- Cheshunt
- Enfield
- Palmers Green
- Bowes Park
- Wood Green (passing close to Alexandra Palace)
- Hornsey
- Harringay
- Finsbury Park
Its original termination point was at New River Head near Clerkenwell, Islington, close to the current location of Sadler's Wells theatre — where water from the river was used to flood a large tank to stage an Aquatic Theatre at the beginning of the 19th century. Today by following the New River Path it is possible to walk almost the whole length of the New River from its source between Hertford and Ware to its current destination in Stoke Newington, Hackney. In 1946 the water supply to New River Head was truncated at Stoke Newington with the New River ending at the East Reservoir.
Read more about this topic: New River (England)
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